Chillingsworth is the healer of life and death, but he couldn’t heal himself from revenge and the angry that had gotten hold of him. I believed it is not only Chillingsworth’s fault for trying to revenge on Hester and tortured Dimmesdale, tremendously. Chillingsworth as a man of adventure and herbs, of course he would go on with his life and seek for the knowledge of a healer. It is true that Chillingswroth should had brought Hester along with him in search for his medicine knowledge, however, a journey as dangerous as this, he may not want her to experience the obstacles that he will have to go through? I don’t know what kind of love or feelings that were developed or didn’t developed between Chillingsworth and Hester, but he must have been hoping to return home from his long adventure of finding the power of healing to find his beloved wife, Hester waiting for him. But when he came, what he found was distraught with a broken heart of a woman on a platform full of sin What would you feel, if you were in his place? Anger? Or Relief? From his vision, he see Hester as a horrible woman that ruin their life, their marriage. wouldn’t it be Hester and Dimmesdale’s fault too….? As a woman that in those days, she must have trust in her husband and not betray him; she was supposed to be PURE and wait for him whether he lives or die. It was her commitment and to be faithful to the husband. It is not like today, where a person can divorce and have many wives or husbands. This is a causation that blinded Chillingsworth to torture both Hester and Dimmesdale, he was unable to see that what he was doing was wrong. Who would have? When a person is angry, their mind surely would blank out and start functioning like savages and the feeling that your heart is getting ripped open and it hurts , right? Just think, how do u feel when you are angry. This anger has cause Chillingsworth to dig Dimmesdale’s grave as well as his. Why blame only him, when Hester and Dimmesdale are the one that commit adultery? Betrayal hurts most! -SHee vang |